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HLS in the World: Harvard Law School’s Bicentennial Summit

Lighting the Way

HLS in the World bicentennial summit

Harvard Law School’s bicentennial is an opportunity to reflect upon our history and innumerable contributions of Harvard lawyers across the globe; it is also an opportunity for the HLS community to come together and do what the law school does best—ask hard questions about important matters, think critically, and explore solutions for urgent problems.

HLS in the World, held Oct. 26-27, featured an extraordinary gathering of leaders. Lawyers, legislators, governors, judges, public interest leaders, entrepreneurs, financiers, journalists, and others—from the United States and abroad—who joined together to share ideas, debate and deliberate in dozens of panel discussions and open fora.

In Session

At HLS, a conversation with six Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court

By Brett Milano, October 26, 2017

The opening event of Harvard Law School’s Bicentennial summit was one for the history books. Gathering at Sanders Theater were six Supreme Court justices (five current and one retired): Neil Gorsuch ’91, Elena Kagan ’86, David H. Souter ’66, Stephen G. Breyer ’64, Anthony M. Kennedy ’61, and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ’79. In a roundtable discussion with Dean John F. Manning ’85, the justices shared memories and more than a few priceless anecdotes.

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Read CaptionLangdell Hall was illuminated in red for Harvard Law School's Bicentennial Summit, "HLS in the World," on Oct. 26-27. Read CaptionAs part of Harvard Law School's Bicentennial Summit Opening Event, six Supreme Court justices -- Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ’79; Associate Justices Anthony M. Kennedy ’61, Stephen G. Breyer ’64 and Elena Kagan ’86; Neil Gorsuch ’91; and Retired Associate Justice David H. Souter ’66-- took part in a bicentennial procession prior to their historic talk at Harvard's Sanders Theatre. Read CaptionFaculty, students, alumni, staff and Supreme Court justices joined a bicentennial procession from Langdell Library to Memorial Hall. Read CaptionA panel of five Senators in the 115th United States Congress discussed leadership in America and the need for active bipartisanship. (L-R) Moderator David Gergen ’67 with Senators Tom Cotton ’02 (R-Ark.), Mark Warner ’80 (D-Va.), Tim Kaine ’83 (D-Va) Elizabeth Warren (D- Ma), a former HLS professor, and U.S. Jack Reed ’82 (D-R.I.). Read CaptionThe "Harvard Law School and Governing" panel featured former Massachusetts Governors William Weld ’70 and Michael Dukakis ’60, and former Governor of Michigan Jennifer Granholm ’87, with faculty host Ken Mack ’91. Read CaptionFormer U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power ’99 and Yale Law School Professor Harold Koh ’80 for a panel on their careers, examining what it means to be a professor and a government official. Harvard Law School Professor Martha Minow moderated. Read CaptionHLS Clinical Professor Dehlia Umunna, deputy director of the law school's Criminal Justice Institute, hosted a session on criminal justice reform and advocacy through storytelling. Read CaptionRace, punishment, and the law were the focus of a bicentennial summit talk by Bryan Stevenson ’85, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. Read Caption[L-R] Sang-Hyun Song, president of UNICEF/Korea joined International Criminal Court Judge Raul Pangalangan LL.M.’86 S.J.D. ’90 for a panel titled "International​ ​Criminal​ ​Law​ ​from​ ​Nuremberg​ ​to​ ​the​ ​ICC​ ​and​ ​Beyond." Read CaptionFormer Attorney General of the United States Loretta Lynch ’84, left, and Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School Annette Gordon-Reed ’84 looked back on their time together at Harvard Law School and discussed their subsequent careers. Read CaptionAn all-star quartet of HLS alumni [L-R] Judge Patricia Millett ’88 of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia; Chief Judge Merrick Garland ’77 of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; Judge Joseph Greenaway Jr. ’81 of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and Judge Jane Kelly ’91 of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, served as judges for reargument of the landmark 1803 case Marbury v. Madison, in the Ames Courtroom. Read CaptionThe professor and protégé: Supreme Court advocates and constitutional law scholars Laurence Tribe ’66, Harvard’s Carl M. Loeb University Professor, and Kathleen Sullivan ’81, former dean of Stanford Law School, reargued the landmark 1803 case Marbury v. Madison, in the Ames Courtroom. Read Caption"God on Mass Ave," a panel discussion that explored topics of religion and law, featured Harvard Law School Professors [L-R] Intisar Rabb, director of HLS' Islamic Legal Studies Program, Charles Donahue, and Noah Feldman, director of HLS' Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law. Read CaptionA session, titled “Harvard Law School and ‘The Oldest Colony in the World’: An Unsettled Century of U.S.-Puerto Rico Relations,” included panelists (L-R) Rafael Cox-Alomar ‘04, assistant professor of law at the University of the District of Columbia School of Law; Pedro Reina-Pérez, a professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras; Andrés W. López ‘95, president of the Law Offices of Andrés W. López; and Christopher Landau ‘89, a partner at Kirkland & Ellis. HLS Assistant Professor Andrew Crespo ’08 moderated. Read CaptionIn a panel titled "Harvard​ ​Law​ ​School​ ​and​ ​Civil​ ​Rights-Civil​ ​Liberties​ ​Lawyering:​ ​Examining​ ​the Past,​ ​Charting​ ​the​ ​Future,"[L-R] Professor Ken Mack ’91 joined Raheemah Abdulaleem ’01, chair of KARAMAH: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights, Associate Dean of IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law Felice Batlan ’90, and Fordham Law Professor Jennifer Gordon ’92. Read CaptionAlumni dancing the night away at the Rock 'n' Roll After Party. Read CaptionHarvard Law School Professor Richard Lazarus ’79, faculty chair of the Harvard Law School Bicentennial Planning Committee, with Nancy Boccia, who organized the event. Read Caption(L-R) Supreme Court Justices David H. Souter ’66 (Ret.), Elena Kagan ’86, David H. Souter ’66, Anthony M. Kennedy ’61, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ’79, Stephen G. Breyer ’64, and Neil Gorsuch ’91. Read CaptionSupreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy ’61, and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ’79 and Stephen G. Breyer ’64 shared memories, advice and more than a few priceless anecdotes during their bicentennial talk at Sanders Theatre. Read Caption(Ret.) Justice David Souter revealed that he had been rushed to University Health Services in his second year of HLS, after slicing his hand in a mock sword duel. “It was a way to pass the time,” he explained.

Revisiting Judicial Review

Tribe and Sullivan team up for a reargument of the landmark 1803 case at Harvard Law

By Seth Stern, October 26, 2017

Laurence H. Tribe ’66 and Kathleen Sullivan ’81 have teamed up on many cases since she was a student in his constitutional law class; now, for the first time, they will face off as adversaries in a reargument of the landmark case Marbury v. Madison, part of the Harvard Law School bicentennial celebration on Oct. 27.Continue Reading »